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As mentioned previously, I have started posting quite regularly on Facebook and Twitter – anything from five to 15 messages a day. The items are always concerned with topical economic and financial market issues, web links and graphs, and rarely about useless personal stuff.

The social media sites fill a very important communication gap as short snippets often don’t warrant blog posts, but are nevertheless important for investment decision-making. Whenever possible, I also attempt to link the messages to specific exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by including ticker symbols. Interestingly, people seem to comment more readily by means of a sentence or two and this should also be of interest to the rest of my Facebook friends and Twitter followers.